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The Bitcoin Stratigraphy Data Engine team encountered an L402 micropayment bottleneck when migrating the system into a fully autonomous MCP server: enforcing the complete L402 flow on every API call would drag down the millisecond-level ReAct loop, and high-frequency telemetry requests would also cause the node wallet to simultaneously process a large number of pending settlement invoices, forming congestion.
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10/12/2026
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Valid until: 1/10/2027
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